4) "I think SNKP has given up trying to make the next Samurai Shodown, and are trying to make the next Soul Calibur"- neojedi from shoryuken forums about SS7"Then of course they are not going to include blood or pets because it will ruin Soul Calibur feel of game"- Black Shroud's comment

8) "Saya: fanservice character....Mina: it was meant to be fanservice character....Iroha: behold the ultimate fanservice character!"-Black Shroud, readed in some review

9) "I like Soul Calibur. I like Samurai Shodown. But I dont like Soul Calibur in my Samurai Shodown."- Jetman from the-nextlevel forum about SS7

10) "No Poppy; no sale."- Yoshi from the-nextlevel forum about SS7

11) "I cant wait to play that new maid ninja whore"- unnamed user from Samurai Shodown Forever about Iroha

12) "I think this will be the only fighting game in years to have new characters that aren't magical lolicrap or a beautiful and ambiguous 15-year-old boy who has somehow become one of the world's most powerful warriors on a quest to save the world and somehow redeem himself from a past he doesn't remember."- Iggy from mmcafe thread about SS7, mocking SS3's Shizumaru, and albeit SS:SS:Shinshō's Seishiro

13) "And now they have Real Fat Viking with Beard and Horns. World Heroes attack the samurai crew!"- shoryuken forums about SS7

14) "there is no hanafuda card during Genjurô's super-that-is-not-a-super-anymore-because-there-is-no-supers."- Iggy from mmcafe thread about SS7

15) "They took one of their best series and turned it into Soul Calibur Shodown"- Ultima from mmcafe thread about SS7

16) "Oh but there is blood in SS7, it is just hidden begind the game's logo"- Black Shroud about SS7

17) Volosatost: "6-1 vs Snakelord. I play only for month but already got so much experience! Snakelord: 1) We havent finished Snakelord: 2) We dont use this forum Snakelord: 3) Zankuro is just a typical sucky brainless musclebound! Two slashes and I'm dead!

18) "She is cheap, and fights dirtier than a bloodthirsty rat. Her applications of the Rera Mitsube are evil and she will repeatedly trample you with them before you can even get up. At least you can cut her arm off. Good!"- Mehdi Malekzandi shows his love to SS:AZ Nakoruru. Oh and Rera Mitsube move translates as Wind Blade

19)-What's the most you've ever payed for a Neo game? So far for me it's ?80 for Real Bout Special, probably nothing compared to what some of you guys have payed!-Samurai Spirits 5 Special (fixed) for 275$ plus shipping. I would do it again but my studies leaves little money to spare.THX-1138 & HexElf about expensive games

20) "It's Asura!" (sonpeng looking at Testament from Guilty Gear in first time)"Its Testament!"(hron!k looking at Asura from SS:AZ in first time)"Arc Systems plagiated that design"(both songpeng and hron!k)

24) To summarize the game's storyline:SS: A cross dressing weirdo with a crystal tries to destroy the world, and it up to alcohol drinking samurai, fat ninjas and cute girls with birds to stop him.

SS2: A demon priestess is causing harm to the world, and the cast returns, joined by a old man, a catgirl and a violent swordsman with a pet frog, even though they all end up jobbing to Ukyo because he is GOD TIER.

SS3: An evil swordman is going around killing people, so the cast beats each other up, a kid goes around hurting people with an umbrella, Nakoruru's sister steals her stage, and they all get crappy text endings for our trouble.

SS4: The cross dressing weirdo has turned the evil swordsman to stone, kidnapped a female ninja and built a castle so big, you can see it from every stage in the game. Charolette and Jubei returns, two ninja's fight to see who gets to find their sister first, Hizame acts even more emo than he did in SS3 and Nakoruru just stands there and looks cute.

SS5: Some loser with a polearm causes a war and can magically turned into an armored demon, Nako turns evil (for real this time), Haohmaru gets a clone that likes to cut himself, Rimururu turns into a loli, Mina uses her pet to annoy everyone into submission, Ukyo gets a female counterpart and Enja screams incoherently the whole time.

SS5Sp: Same thing as above, only with the cross dressing weirdo, the evil swordman and the demon priestess as a part of the cast. Oh, and there's blood. Lots and lots of blood.

SSTK: Iroha is announced as a new character. The next day, hentai of her spreads all over the internet.

That should do it. ^_^-Zokuto_Nanaya about Samsho storyline

25) You're not going to believe me, but 3 years ago I bought the original Xbox, just because SSV came out on it. I've only played that and Ninja Gaiden on it.-va_bank

26) -Samurai Spirits Sen dicussion-This is a dream come true since I always hoped to see Galford in 3D; although there is a Galford skin option for Hanzo I still didn't like it and to see his true appearence in a proper Samurai fighting game makes it awesome looking.(Was written after more than 10 years after release of SS64 by Voidox on gamefaqs)

27) It's funny, they say, "well, samurai shodown doesnt sell well in the US", NO DEAR, probably because samurai shodown is never made available to US customers. I still remember counting the days so I could buy the SNES version of Shodown, and since then, I havent really had the chance to play it elsewhere. Nobody I know or knew had a Neo Geo, nobody had a 3DO, hense nobody had Samurai shodown. ROHACOPE, gamefaqs

28) (from MSN conversation)Souji:- i`m not a big fan on 50/50 gameBlack Shroud:- Yeah its kinda primitive but when Ronin guesses 100% of how I would block it annoys me, so I start use it tooSouji:- im not amused by playing vs players that use 50/50 game, cause the game is more complex than thatBlack Shroud:- yes but they are using every opportunity to winSouji:- using every opportunity to win, isn`t living by samurai honorBlack Shroud:- ronins lost their honor already, together with their masters Souji:- never looked it that way lolSouji:- too bad, yes, but true

AlexMercer238 wrote:I saw chareacters like Ryu Hasabusa, Afro Samurai, the guy with the long hair ninja Muramasa form SC IV. THis company who is making this game dont have trade mark rights to use or have chgaracters who look exactly like them. I think Tecmo, Samuel L. Jackson, and SC IV devs are going to sue the people of this game. Wow devs would go that low to have those 3 people in the game. Also forgot Dragonball Z character Goku. Man (I hope they sue.

Corrupted_Wolf wrote:You're kidding right?

Samurai Showdown has been around since the 1993... much earlier than SC. This game had all these characters for awhile. Afro Samurai is also a popular cultural myth that's been around for centuries in japan. Afro Samurai has been portrayed ages before, hundreds times before, and couple of times more memorable than Sam Jackson's portrayal of Afro Samurai in the anime.

You should probably give benefit of doubt for other people's integrity and intelligence.

I_am_Kairace wrote:lol

"Ryu Hasabusa"

lolol

armydominican69 wrote:@AlexMercer238Lol, do your research for crying out loud

homer2001 wrote:LOL that is awesome

AngelCage-2 wrote:Kid, you really messed up. The design of the new "Ryu Hasabusa" (as you called him ) from xbox/360/ps3 games is more or less similar (and i could say that have some inspiration from) to the original design of Hanzo and Galford from Samurai Shodown. In any case... the ripoff is from Tecmo, cause that design is original from SNK since the first SS... Is not a mirror match anyway.

Afro Samurai? Wrong again.

Just google a little time. Samurai Shodow, the characters and the same graphical style (now in 3d) is a lot older than NG, or... Afro samurai or even Soul Edge/Soul Calibur. (Ryu design in the original NES NG games was just another ninja... a badass one, but nothing special -design wise-)

Fission Mailed my friend.

jonluke93 wrote:Wow idiot Samurai Showdown has been around longer than all of those, man you don't know anything

Hayatozero wrote:If anything Mitsurugi is a ripoff of Haohmaru. I mean COME ON the dude has a move like kogetsuzan AND his overhead sword slam?

jakol_man wrote:Cut the kid some slack. He's probably too young to have even been to an arcade with Neo Geo machines.

@the topic creator: Bro, I suggest you find Samurai Shodown Anthology. This will give you a quick history lesson on one of the finest fighting game series ever made.

Gurue26 wrote:Nevermind that there isn't a single original idea in any of these characters. They are all based on stereotypical archtypes from the era of the samurai. Tecmo didn't steal anything either. They just did the same think SNK did and made up a character based on how ninja were perceived from feudal Japan. Guilty Gear and the like have original characters based on nothing. Granted, SS is a hell of a lot more fun, but that's beside the point.

The TC is wrong in his assertion that anything was "ripped off" from current gen games for this new SS, but the material he is saying was ripped was never original to begin with, so it doesn't matter.

Oh, and this new 3D SS can bite me. I want my 2D Genjuro back.

EndlessKombat wrote:where do u see goku in the game?

boazkoawl wrote:^^He is talking about Kazama Kazuki, I think.

Taikoubou wrote:Cmon guys don't feed the troll

Doubtful that he's a troll, he probably just doesn't know any better.

Granted, SS is a hell of a lot more fun, but that's beside the point.

Your opinion. Personally, I prefer ArcSys fighting games to all fighting games.

D Man wrote:Afro Samurai has been portrayed ages before, hundreds times before, and couple of times more memorable than Sam Jackson's portrayal of Afro Samurai in the anime.

It has?

zero829 wrote:Actually yes because there was, historically, an African soldier that was under the shogun for a little while or something along those lines. In other words, there really was a black samurai. If I remember correctly, his story has more or less become a children's story in Japan, but the point is that it is hardly an original idea.

bvzxa2 wrote:I can't believe this??

This topic can't be real...

True the characters could resemble anyone of gazillion fighting games out there, but SamSho probaly was the best thing to come along in '93 than alot of games. They use historical history to support some of the characters if you read any detailed faq right on here.

Kuro_Shurado wrote:Yes historical references are cool.But now there are 2 characters based on Musashi Miyamoto (Haohmaru is based on historical one and Takechiyo is basically Musashi Miyamoto from manga Vagabond, only with different name. They took his design right after moment he first challenged Yoshioka School in manga, and he wears headband because he sustained head injury in that fight. He also havent acquired katanas at that point in manga, using only bokken, that why Takechiyo uses it (not to mention it being Musashi's trademark)

Sunma_Kenis wrote:This topic is what I call LEGENDARY.

DensetsuShounen wrote:Obvious troll is obvious.

Made me laugh 'tho...

360hammer wrote:Who saw Goku?

LMAO

D Man wrote:Actually yes because there was, historically, an African soldier that was under the shogun for a little while or something along those lines. In other words, there really was a black samurai. If I remember correctly, his story has more or less become a children's story in Japan, but the point is that it is hardly an original idea.

J. is riding on the coattails of Afro Samurai. You can't deny that.

Kuro_Shurado wrote:If anything is a ripoff, its a Genan who was made as joke character that mirrors-certain green-skinned Capcom character that likes to do rolling attacks-certain narcissistic Capcom character that likes to use metal claw in battle and (in SS6) do wall jump specials with claw dives-certain Midway character that likes to impale people with his weapon so they can "get over there"

29)(from MSN conversation)So after each KOF, Ash renders a character powerless by stealing his special power...kazegami: btw if XIII was no end of saga, Kyo would be a clone of Shingo in KOF 14?Black Shroud: probably... but he has enough non-projectile moves to cover up for thatBlack Shroud: you know, the whole cast of Samurai Shodown Sen is a clone of ShingoBlack Shroud: kazegami: hahahha